Top 277 Panic Quotes

Creating boundaries for yourself is healthy. A lot of panic attacks, in my experience, can be stopped by actually saying to somebody, ‘Sorry I can’t actually do this because I feel uncomfortable.’

I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they’ll sting you. So just stay cool.

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.

Every day there’s a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I’ve always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I’m not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

If a person, an athlete is not versed in something, their first reaction when there is a bad situation is not a good feeling. It’s panic.

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

Everyone always says, ‘Kristen got ‘Panic Room’ because she looks like Jodie Foster.’ But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.

If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.

In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses… to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won’t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn’t have a good time.

When I have to take phone calls, I start to sweat and panic. Being on the phone is so weird – hearing a voice without seeing the face so you can’t really know the intention behind the voice.

Just because I keep getting close and don’t win these Majors, I must not panic.

People tend to panic at the mention of the word cancer, but I wasn’t upset or frightened when the doctor told me.

Since I was a young kid, I have always been calm on the ball. That comes down to awareness as well. When you have good awareness and you know what’s going on around you, you don’t need to panic. There is no point. It just makes things worse. You have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

You have to be patient, efficient with your moves, and attuned to what’s happening with your body physically. The key is not to rush or panic. You wait and wait and wait – and then strike.

I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Even though we know the origin of diseases, panic sweeps. It’s one thing that frightens us, because it’s your health and your body – it’s more like a tangible threat; it’s not like a foreign enemy you can fight. That was really what was uppermost to many of us whilst making ‘Black Death.’

We don’t live our life on panic.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school. I loved the whole slacker look, like, ‘Hey, I don’t care, whatever,’ but if I didn’t turn my homework in, I would panic.

Anyone who’s suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

I play the way I am as a person. I don’t panic, I’m patient.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

The thought of being in space, and kind of enclosed, I find would be very claustrophobic. I think I would panic in that situation.

My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication – and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success – Don’t Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

Actually, what I did, because I couldn’t make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing ‘I Have Confidence’ was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.

There is a need to be the best you can be. You can’t panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I’m very nervous, but I’ll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused.

One thing I’ll never do is panic.

Generals don’t panic; then the troops never panic.

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

I’m scared each time I start a movie, believe me. There’s always a moment of panic when you’re not sure if you’re going to be able to meet the deadline.

I think that I don’t panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don’t have that sense of panic.

Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

What really disconcerts commentators, I suspect, is that when they read historical fiction, they feel their own lack of education may be exposed; they panic, because they don’t know which bits are true.

When things are down, we can’t hit the panic button, and when things are up, we can’t relax. We’ve just got to stay consistent.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom’s side. I don’t really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

I started to get quite bad panic attacks when I was in my late teens, and I began running because I wanted to do everything I could before going down the medical route.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, ‘Okay, this is happening to me, but it’ll be over. You’ll be fine. You’ll live.’

I think obviously when you’re first diagnosed with cancer you definitely panic and that your mind races and thinks the worst but I was extremely lucky.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people’s powers of resistance.

Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I’m more than six feet above ground.

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

We panic if there’s two centimeters of snow in London.

Most of my days in the office end like this: I am in a meeting, it’s running over, and I am starting to panic because if I don’t leave the office right this second, I will be – yet again – late picking my kids up from school.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.